Aornos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 27, 2025 09:57 AM
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History
Aornos was a mountain fortress and the site of Alexander the Great's last siege during the winter of 327-6 BC. The ancient site likely corresponds to Ūṇa, a peak on the Pīr-Sar west of the Indus river.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59687
34.72192, 73.28464
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: GeoNames location: Una (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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settlement (fortified), mountain
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 C3 Aornos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Pir Sar? PAK
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Aornos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59687> [accessed: 12 December 2025]
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